Hi, i'm new to lucid dreaming - kind of.

I was lead here by howstuffworks.com

Kudos, nice stuff here. Makes you feel ... not at home. Heh.
Anyway, I didn't realize this up until now but I lucid dream alot.
Its strange though, because I do maybe 5-8 times a month, maybe even more.
I dont even think about it, it just happens.
But there is one problem, sometimes when I realize im dreaming the dream fades away. It doesn't seem real anymore and it feels like light and reality is ripping through my dream view. Everything seems distorted and with less detail, I feel more distracted and its very hard to continue staying lucid. Eventually I wake up.
I can stay lucid in a dream for about a minute or two. And I mean REALLY lucid. As in I know whats going on around me and I know im slowly losing grip of my dream.
Weird thing is lucid dreaming sometimes happens when i'm bothered.
Sometimes when my mom is in the room or my bro is watchin TV or something in the backround distracts me from my dream.

Sometimes I have these dreams where they appear so real I start to question myself if they are dreams, but I find no proof and think "no, they're real".
When I was younger I had this ability to get out of bad dreams.
Whenever I had a nightmare or an unconfortable dream I saw myself in the third person and a little portal created infront of me and I screamed so hard and then all i saw was swirling red and white and I transferred into a different dream or woke up.
I cant seem to do this anymore, however.
Another thing is, I am usually lucid in dreams that I crave for, if you know what I mean.
Like I could be dreaming that I'm in some apartment then I become lucid and go in the hallway to look for girls...
Its really weird but everytime I get somewhere closer the dream gets distorted and I eventually wake up.

Im wondering if there is any advice u can give me, like harmless expirements I can do in my sleep or try something cool.